The Ranger

Travis M. Armajo

Travis M. Armajo, of Lander, died Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012, in Lander. He was 32 years old.

Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 15, at the Blue Sky Hall at Ethete. Burial will follow at Sacajawea Cemetery at Fort Washakie. A wake was Friday evening at the hall.

Travis McQuean Armajo was born June 30, 1980, at the Bannock Memorial Hospital in Pocatello, Idaho, to Harold Luxon and Florene Gay (Pahneeno) Armajo.

He was raised by his grandmother, Vivian Armajo, and attended school at Fort Washakie and graduated from Flandreau Indian School in South Dakota and attended Haskell College in Lawrence, Kan. He lived the majority of his life in the Ethete area.

His family said he was an accomplished artist, working with charcoal drawings; he was a composer of music, writing his own songs and lyrics and playing the guitar. He had one CD out and played his music on 88.1fm. They said he also liked working and enjoyed tinkering on electronics and computers.

His grandmother said he was of the Latter-day Saints faith and respected Native American traditions and was raised the Indian way.

Mr. Armajo worked for the Wind River Casino in customer service and surveillance in the security department of the casino. He had most recently been working for American Laundry in Lander and had just been hired at the Maverick Motel in Lander.